Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 13:42

"And as they went out, they besought that these words might be spoken to them the next sabbath." — Acts 13:42 (ASV)

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue.—The better manuscripts simply give, as they were going out, the Received Text apparently being an explanatory interpretation. The reading, “the Gentiles besought,” is an addition of the same character, the better manuscripts simply giving, they besought, or were beseeching. What follows shows, indeed, that some at least of the Jews were led to inquire further. The participle implies that they stopped as they passed out to request the Apostle to resume his teaching on the following Sabbath. This, and not the marginal reading “in the week between,” is the true meaning of the words, though the words literally allow for the other rendering.